Hong Kong Telegraph 1894-05-31

Hong Kong Telegraph 1894-05-31

Year: 1894

Prevention cheaper than cure So far the measures adopted by the authorities for the suppresaion of the epldemlc vaguely known here as the plague have been considered aufficlenthy effective, eapeclally as they were supplemented by copious downpours of rain and exceptionally cool weather; yesterday's hospital returns, however, as well as those published in another column of this issue, prove otherwise. And now that it has been ascertained beyond doubt that the disease is not restricted to Societe Francaise des char-bonnages du tonkin The plague in HONGKONG The vaccine institute The "whitewash" brigade Jackson and corbett The resent despatch to Relics of a past race Recent events have attracted attention the great lake between Cambodia and siam, Thale Sap, and to the two Siamese provinces of Ang-Kor, site of the famous ruins, and Battambong, which adjoin it. The region lies to the north of cocbin-Chins, between siam, the ocean, and the laos distrcts; and although now but thinly populated it was in former times the abode of the East, and which for long centuries was governed by a famous line of Sovereigns. The great lake is formed during the rainy season by one of the branches of the M